....The average pay for an Amazon Services UK employee is £29,000, according to its latest financial filing at Companies House. The level of the share-based payout grew year-on-year along with the soaring Amazon share price, which last month resulted in the company’s founder, Jeff Bezos, briefly overtaking Bill Gates to become the world’s richest man, worth £70bn. ...

....Bezos has long had a reputation for being unusually stingy, even for a multibillionaire. He is the only one of the world’s top five billionaires not to have signed Warren Buffett’s giving pledge, and his philanthropic efforts so far have paled next to those of other prominent corporate titans like Bill Gates and even Mark Zuckerberg. ...

....Just a few dollars more on the Amazon share price and the world will have a new richest man. Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder, is on the brink of overtaking Bill Gates to become the wealthiest person on the planet. ...

. The easyJet founder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has promised to give more than half of his £2bn fortune to charity after he was “inspired” by the world’s richest man, the Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates. ...

....Mr Forrest was once Australia's richest man, with his wealth peaking in 2008 during the nation's mining boom. In 2013, he pledged at least 50% of his wealth to charity after joining the Giving Pledge campaign launched by US billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. ...

....Mr Joyce is not the first high-profile person to have been struck with a pie. Others include News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and television presenter Jeremy Clarkson. ...

.... His total wealth now stands at $74bn. Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, is now on the brink of toppling the legendary investor Warren Buffett to become the world’s second-richest person after Bill Gates. ...

....7% of national income to aid each year, Jim Yong Kim said the money the UK provided was vital not just for developing countries but for the future of the world. His comments came after Bill Gates told the Guardian that lives would be lost in Africa if the government dropped the commitment because plans to eradicate malaria would be jeopardised. ...

.... Emphasising how robots could boost inequality, the report proposed that there might be a “need to introduce corporate reporting requirements on the extent and proportion of the contribution of robotics and AI to the economic results of a company for the purpose of taxation and social security contributions”. The public reaction to Delvaux’s proposal has been overwhelmingly negative, with the notable exception of Bill Gates, who endorsed it. ...

.... Lynton and his wife, Jamie Alter, became early investors in the company after seeing their daughters use the service. Those who come to the Snapchat party now will be hoping Spiegel can make them money, too, and perhaps emerge as the new Steve Jobs to Zuckerberg’s Bill Gates. ...

.... Perhaps an industry’s immunity is related to the size of each individual transaction. You state that the founders of Airbnb and Uber are very different from Bill Gates, Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg… How?For all their strengths, Gates, Page and Zuckerberg are not charismatic communicators or storytellers. ...

.... But painting these individuals as the villains would be unfair. The eight include some of the world’s largest philanthropists and those, such as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, who have spoken out against the shocking scale of inequality in the world. ...

....The world’s eight richest billionaires control the same wealth between them as the poorest half of the globe’s population, according to a charity warning of an ever-increasing and dangerous concentration of wealth. In a report published to coincide with the start of the week-long World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Oxfam said it was “beyond grotesque” that a handful of rich men headed by the Microsoft founder Bill Gates are worth $426bn (£350bn), equivalent to the wealth of 3. ...

.... Al Gore – now making a modest fortune as a green-tech investor – was optimistic about the potential for finding “common ground” with Trump on climate following a recent meeting with him. “[I]n this energy space,” Bill Gates said after his own meeting with Trump, “there can be a very upbeat message that [Trump’s] administration [is] going to organize things, get rid of regulatory barriers, and have American leadership through innovation. ...

....Fossil fuel divestment has been criticised as gesture politics, as the investments are sold on, or unrealistic due to world’s current dependence on fossil fuels. Bill Gates called fossil fuel divestment a “false solution” in 2015, although the $40bn Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has now sold off 85% of its fossil fuel investments. ...

....”. Later, he helped instigate a meeting of all the big company CEOs in London with Bill Gates to pledge to help end the neglected tropical diseases that affect millions in poor countries yet are unheard of in the west, such as leishmaniasis and trachoma. ...

....Even small-scale retailers such as fruit and vegetable market traders have started to sign up for the services. Many economists and even Microsoft founder Bill Gates have welcomed Mr Modi's initiative, which is aimed at wiping out corruption. ...

.... The Forward. us coalition, which includes Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, wanted to make the 2016 election a “referendum on immigration reform”, explaining how they battle for a small number of global technology specialists. ...

.... Under the agreements, Four Seasons leads the design of the new property, and runs it with near total control. The next big change came in 1986 when the business floated on the stock market, until in 2007 it was bought by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia. ...

....But he cautioned that it would take years before the couple's fund led to the creation of new medical treatments and further time before they could be applied to patients. Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates - who has funded his own health research via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - appeared at the event to praise the announcement. ...

....Technology is creating wealth, for a few people at least, in a manner unparalleled in economic history. Of the 13 richest in the world, eight made their money from tech, including Bill Gates (Microsoft), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), and Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google). ...

.... After all, he has 60 years' experience in fashion retail, built up from humble beginnings. According to Forbes magazine, experts in estimating the bank balances of the world's wealthiest, Mr Ortega's fortune overtook that of Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Wednesday and Thursday this week, before fluctuating share prices pushed it back into second place. ...

....Being so bored that you go to sleep is the worst look there is. Kay Whitmore, chief executive of Kodak in the 1990s, was more infamous for falling asleep in a meeting with Bill Gates, than for helping to run his company into the ground. ...

....". It's not just access to the single market that could lure young techies to Berlin - there's also an entrepreneurial and pioneering atmosphere, and few companies better encapsulate this than ResearchGate, a social network for the scientific community with more than 10 million users, and with high-profile investors such as Bill Gates. ...

....The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has sold off its entire holding in oil giant BP, in a move welcomed by fossil fuel divestment campaigners. Bill Gates has called the selling off of coal, oil and gas stocks a “false solution” to climate change, but the known investments of his foundation in major fossil fuel companies has fallen by 85% since 2014. ...

....Apple has cash reserves greater than the GDP of most countries, accrued in part by depriving those countries of taxes, and exploiting their mineral resources. Bill Gates uses his fortune to cure malaria, Apple uses its fortune to . ...

....The service and knowledge economy is often touted as a cleaner and more environmentally friendly way of organising our society. Bill Gates once heralded this as the era of “frictionless capitalism”, a spotless, shiny and pollution-free world. ...

....During the fortnight preceding the sale, 25,000 visitors had filed through Christie’s, eager to catch a glimpse of the paintings before they disappeared once more into private hands. The auction itself was a high-society event, with the cosmetics king Leonard Lauder and William H Gates, father of the Microsoft founder Bill Gates, squeezing into the packed halls. ...

....New Crop has plenty of company. Over the years, several Silicon Valley venture funds and billionaire investors like Bill Gates and Li Ka-Shing have invested in startups such as Beyond Meat, Hampton Creek and Impossible Foods, which sell or intend to sell alternatives to conventional meat, dairy and egg products. ...

....This contradicted the BCC's pledge to adopt a neutral stance in the debate. Mr Caudwell is a noted philanthropist and in 2013 signed up to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, which calls on billionaires to commit at least half their wealth to charity during their lifetime. ...

....Related: Apple declares victory in battle with FBI, but the war continues. The case forced public leaders from Barack Obama to Bill Gates to declare where they stood on the balance between privacy and national security. ...

.... The average assets under management of 157 single-family offices surveyed by Campden Wealth in 2015 was $662m. The uber-wealthy known to have family offices include Bill Gates, former Google boss Eric Schmidt, Oprah Winfrey, the Duke of Westminster, the Sainsbury and Goldsmiths families, and inventor James Dyson. ...

....At the World Economic Forum in Davos at the start of the year, concern was raised that women would be among the worst losers from automation-linked job losses. Countering the concern was Microsoft founder Bill Gates who said that same labour could be used for other needs. ...

....Almost entirely organically, Medium has become an outlet for people who already have the biggest audiences in the world. Think Bill Gates, Bono and even President Obama, who posted his State of the Union address on Medium, in full, before he delivered it to Congress. ...

....As a result Slim is no longer the second-richest man in the world – and is merely fourth. Bill Gates is once again the wealthiest person in the world, although even the Microsoft founder’s fortune has dipped, from $79. ...

.... Google boss Sundar Pichai called the judge’s order a “troubling precedent”. Microsoft founder and world’s richest man Bill Gates seemed to think there ought to be a compromise available: “It is no different than [asking] ‘should anybody ever have been able to tell the phone company to get information? Should anybody be able to get at bank records?’” he told the Financial Times. ...

....But he has not cracked the top 10 billionaires in Hurun's list, which is dominated by Americans. It is topped by Bill Gates with a net worth of $80bn, followed by investor Warren Buffett with $68bn. ...

....If you could choose one superpower, what would it be? . That's the question school children in the US put to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and his wife Melinda, and their answers - more time, and more energy - led to a new outlook on how to help the world's poor. ...

.... . Only last month George Osborne, the Chancellor, pledged £500m a year from the nation’s coffers to fight the disease, alongside £140m from the Gates Foundation, the organisation founded by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and wife Melinda. ...

. Bill Gates speaks about his relationship with the late Apple founder Steve Jobs and chooses a song in memory of their work together shaping the technology of the modern age, in an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs on Sunday. ...

.... “I was the only one in the office who was really very techie, so I took the lead in beating up on Microsoft for about a year,” said Love. “Which is why I’ve got this deep, bad relationship with Bill Gates. ...

....Another intiative, the Breakthrough Energy Coalition (BEC), also hopes to transform the green energy market by focusing on electricity generation and storage, transportation, industrial use, agriculture and energy system efficiency. Launched in November by 28 billionaires, including Bill Gates, it plans to circumvent the current research structure, which it says is too rigid. ...

....It's been that time of year when the rich and powerful - as well as the simply famous - head to a Swiss mountain village to discuss the big issues of the day and attempt to put the world to rights. Here are some video highlights of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, including appearances by actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Davos founder Klaus Schwab and philanthropist Bill Gates. ...

....And he urged the world to switch to existing renewable energy, which he said would not only save the planet but also make economic sense by saving $42trillion in energy cost savings. He praised Microsoft and Facebook founders Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg for committing to a zero emissions future. ...

.... Last summer, tests showed that Merck’s experimental ebola vaccine was 100% effective in providing immunity to a disease that killed more than 11,000 people last year. But the world will always face new threats: Bill Gates is to lead a discussion on how to prepare for the next pandemic. ...

....The divestment campaign has had some significant recent successes, including the Church of England divesting from tar sands oil and coal last April and Californian lawmakers passing a bill in September requiring the state’s two largest pension funds to divest from coal. Last summer, Bill Gates announced that he would invest $2bn in renewable technologies, and in November it was announced that entrepreneurs including Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Richard Branson were to form the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to support early-stage clean energy companies. ...

. At a time when being loud and overly confident can seem like the key character traits of a successful entrepreneur, it might be reassuring to know that some of the most successful business people of our time – Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page – are all introverts. ...

....Except that even when chief executives perform disastrously and are fired, they usually do so with a big pay-off. And for every Bill Gates who builds up their company into a multibillion-dollar force there are many time-servers who have worked their way through the ranks without taking big risks. ...

. “Honestly,” said Bill Gates during the COP21 meeting in Paris earlier this month, “I’ve been a bit surprised that the climate talks historically haven’t had R&D on the agenda in any way, shape, or form. ...

.... What would really make this a standout trend would be more, and more ambitious, public-private partnerships to break sustainability out of a business-driven rut. The newly formed Breakthrough Energy Coalition, whose members include more than 20 billionaires such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, could mark a major step in the right direction. ...